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10. S. tetrandrum, R. Brown, Prodr. i. p. 445.—S. inamenum, 
Benth. im Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. p. 228.—Viti (Seemann! m. 343 
eb 345, Milne!, Hinds!, Barclay! United States Expl. Exped. in 
Mus. Brit., Herb. Hook. et Benth.), East coast of New Holland 
(R. Brown /). 
Some of R. Brown’s authentic specimens have pentamerous flowers, 
and I cannot find any characters to separate them from S. inamænum. 
11. S. Nelsoni, Dunal, in De Cand. Prod. xiii. sect. 1, p. 123.—8. 
rotundifolium. Nutt. mss. in Mus. Brit. et Herb. Hook.! S. argen- 
teum, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 92?—Kauai (Nuttall! in Herb. 
Hook. et Mus. Brit.), Oahu (Remy, n. 442, fide A. Gray). 
I have compared Nuttall’s specimen of S. rotundifolium with the 
original one of Nelson, at the British Museum, and there can be no 
doubt of their being identical. But I do not find in Sir William 
Hooker’s herbarium the specimen, mistaken by the authors of Beechey’s 
Botany for S. argenteum, which A. Gray hesitatingly refers to $. 
Nelsoni, Nor has Prof. Walker Arnott, as he informs me, a specimen 
of it. 
Nelsoni, Dun., var. thomasiafolium, Seem. ; foliis cordato-ovatis 
sinuato-lobatis, lobis (5—7) obtusis, vel cordatis integris, fruetu g oboso 
glabro pisi magnitudine.—S. vestitum, Nutt. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 
—Atoi (Nuttall ! in Herb. Mus. Brit.). 
This has quite the look of Zhomasia solanacea, Gay, and would pro- 
_ bably be described as a new species by any one not having seen the 
evident transition there is in some specimens of what Nuttall has 
called S. rotundifolium and A. Gray justly considers identical with the 
original S. Nelsoni, Dun., preserved in the British Museum. In these 
Specimens some of the leaves have a tendency to become sinuato- 
lobate, whilst again several leaves noticed in my var. thomasiafolium 
are cordate and entire. The resemblance between S. Nelsoni var. 
thomasiefolium aud Thomasia solanacea is quite as striking as that 
‘between the Amazonian moth and the humming-bird figured in Mr. 
Bates’s Travels on the Amazon. 
à 12. S. Austro-Caledonicum, Seem. (sp. nov.) ; yutieoaum, — 
merme, foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis integerrimis, basi obliquis, 
Supra pubescentibus, demum glabris, subtus ramulis pedunculis dd 
busque dense tomentosis, corymbis extra-axillaribus bifidis multifloris, 
calycis 5-fidis, laciniis triangularibus acutis, corolla laciniis lineari- 
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